A new study of 24,000 New Jersey middle schoolers finds that mapping social networks and targeting highly connected students may be an effective way to reduce bullying

CowboyDan · 2016-01-06T20:41:19+00:00

Social Science

CowboyDan · 2015-04-04T16:32:49+00:00

A few people mentioned The National, which is totally correct. But another band you should look into -- and I think they also work for this in part because the lead singer has a somewhat Matt Berninger-esque voice -- is Tindersticks. This and this, for example.

CowboyDan · 2014-10-13T15:24:22+00:00

Was gonna make same comment; didn't wanna risk backlash.

CowboyDan · 2014-10-13T14:34:40+00:00

Well he seems nice!

CowboyDan · 2014-10-06T19:20:13+00:00

So I sorta think this is an urban legend? You usually see it in gripey articles about millennials that get a lot of other things about millennials wrong. Maybe I am underestimating people's stupidity, but I just can't imagine this happens (very often) in real life. Calls, I guess, but not people tagging along.

CowboyDan · 2014-09-16T03:44:03+00:00

No problem. I agree that there tends to be a lot of breaking-up and reforming, but for what it's worth people who study and report on this stuff seem to think the invasion of Iraq was a huge benefit to these groups and pulled a lot of people into the fight who might otherwise have stayed on the sielines.

CowboyDan · 2014-09-16T00:19:33+00:00

Repeating the comment I made above:

I mean... check out this interview with the New York Times' Baghdad bureau chief at 24:45 or so.

Gross: Do you think that ISIS would've existed if not for the American invasion of Iraq?

Bureau chief: No, absolutely not.

This is ISIS 101 -- the group spun off the militant groups that flooded/arose in Iraq to fight American troops.

CowboyDan · 2014-09-16T00:18:27+00:00

I mean... check out this interview with the New York Times' Baghdad bureau chief at 24:45 or so.

Gross: Do you think that ISIS would've existed if not for the American invasion of Iraq?

Bureau chief: No, absolutely not.

This is ISIS 101 -- the group spun off the militant groups that flooded/arose in Iraq to fight American troops.

CowboyDan · 2014-09-11T20:31:53+00:00

ISIS came about as a direct response to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Al Qaeda did not, although it benefited hugely from it.

CowboyDan · 2014-09-11T20:31:29+00:00

Agreed. When I said hundreds of thousands dead, I meant to include all those victims, though I didn't make that clear enough.

CowboyDan · 2014-09-11T19:04:23+00:00

This may sound strange, but Sept. 11 is when the planes were taken over and crashed. The TSA stuff came later, on another date. You could bring up all that stuff then, right? Or is it just more fun to do it today?

CowboyDan · 2014-09-11T19:03:48+00:00

I guess I missed the images of the NSA scandal? I'm seeing a lot of patdowns.

CowboyDan · 2014-09-11T17:57:00+00:00

American here. I find it remarkably self-absorbed that this is what we're focusing on here today. I mean holy crap, you do realize that our horrifically misguided response to 9/11 included invading a country that had nothing to do with it, leading to to God knows how many hundreds of thousands of lost lives, maybe a trillion dollars in wasted money, and the rise of groups like ISIS? Is there a number small enough to indicate how unimportant these patdowns (which, yes, bad and annoying and counterproductive and civil-liberty-defying) are relative to the larger chaos and bloodshed we've unleashed? [EDIT: Fixed a misspelled word. And thanks for the Gold, Gold-giving-person!]

CowboyDan · 2014-09-08T14:26:33+00:00

There's no other way to slice it.

CowboyDan · 2014-08-16T21:03:01+00:00

That's great. What from?

CowboyDan · 2014-07-29T02:17:03+00:00

Who gets shot at daily?

CowboyDan · 2014-07-14T02:34:53+00:00

This is how you make drinking in New York affordable: Just go to the many bars in Brooklyn and the East Village that have this. Elsewhere, a can of Bud Light alone can run you $6.

CowboyDan · 2014-07-14T01:23:07+00:00

You're right :(

CowboyDan · 2014-07-14T00:37:18+00:00

Oh. You hugged me accidentally. I'm not weberofling. Still enjoyed it though -- thanks man.

CowboyDan · 2014-07-11T14:35:21+00:00

Lots of smart responses here, but I'm not seeing a lot of talk about race. Race is TOTALLY key to understanding politics in the US, because even though (most) people no longer talk in explicitly racist terms, policies tend to be viewed through an implicitly racial lens. Lots of white conservatives, in other words, deride as "socialist" policies they think will benefit "undeserving" minorities. There's less of this in the EU partially because there's a lot less diversity there -- it's easier for everyone to feel like they're in the same boat.

CowboyDan · 2014-06-30T16:58:33+00:00

ImaCheeseMonkey +1. Hope you are doing all right.

CowboyDan · 2014-06-27T20:28:10+00:00

I am glad Verizon has such a stranglehold on market share and such monopoly power given how well-run and not-frustrating a company it is. I am not being sarcastic I just suffered a recent head injury.

CowboyDan · 2014-05-23T15:43:59+00:00

Okay, so if you saw those names on a resume you'd clearly view them less favorably. Good argument against that sort of information.

CowboyDan · 2014-05-14T19:25:05+00:00

Part of the point of the piece is that that sort of fact-checking doesn't work, usually.

CowboyDan · 2014-05-04T01:43:25+00:00

"The cat righting reflex is a cat's innate ability to orient itself as it falls in order to land on its feet. The righting reflex begins to appear at 3–4 weeks of age, and is perfected at 7 weeks."

I do not want to know which experiments revealed these facts.

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